524 Guard troops being sent to Ariz. border by late Aug.

The federal government will deploy 524 National Guard troops to the Arizona-Mexico border by late August, according to representatives from President Barack Obama's administration.

The delegation met Monday morning with Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and Attorney General Terry Goddard in Tucson. During those meetings, the federal representatives also pledged $600 million in emergency funding to help with border-security issues.

According to Giffords office, an additional 250 troops will be sent to Texas, another 224 troops to California, and 72 to New Mexico. There will also be 130 personnel sent to a national liaison office in an undetermined location.

The delegation spent 90 minutes meeting with Gov. Jan Brewer Monday afternoon. After the briefing, a subdued looking Brewer told assembled media that the troop commitment was "disappointing to say the least.

"The governor said that the troops would begin arriving in late August and would ramp up until they reached their ceiling of 524 individuals. They will then be deployed on surveillance related missions for 120 days.

Brewer's disappointment Friday was not matched by Goddard and Giffords, who said they were pleased with the update and that additional federal support is on its way.

Still, they acknowledged that more can still be done.

"It's a first step," said Goddard, who is the state's presumptive Democratic nominee for governor. "We're a lot better than we were before, and this is not a definitive plan for the border."

Monday's face-to-face conversations are an offshoot of a meeting Brewer had with Obama last month in the Oval Office.

That session, which both parties described as "cordial," covered a range of immigration-related issues, including Senate Bill 1070, Arizona's tough new immigration law, and Brewer's dissatisfaction with the federal government's border-security efforts.

The president has previously said that he plans to send 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S./Mexico border; in addition he has requested $600 million from Congress to pay for 1,000 more border patrol agents, 160 federal immigration officers and unmanned surveillance aircraft known as drones.

During their June 3 meeting, Brewer asked for specifics on how many those troops might be coming to Arizona and what other assistance would be directed toward the state.

Her office has said that they hoped Monday's meetings would shed light on those topics.

In addition, it is anticipated that SB 1070 will be a big topic of discussion. The U.S. Department of Justice is reportedly preparing a lawsuit against Arizona over the newly passed law, which is slated to go into effect July 29.

The Governor's Office said it still has not received confirmation that a suit is forthcoming, but Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has previously stated in television interviews that it is being prepared at the direction of the White House.

The president has repeatedly criticized the Arizona measure, saying it has the potential to be used in a discriminatory fashion.

SB 1070 makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally. It states that an officer engaged in a lawful stop, detention or arrest shall, when practicable, ask about a person's legal status when reasonable suspicion exists that that person is not legally in the U.S.

Giffords said during Monday's news conference that she asked about the status of the federal suit, but was told that Justice Officials were not at liberty to discuss it.